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Parents picking up their kids from nursery on Friday were welcomed by this sign (Picture: Facebook/Juliana Farris Mazurkewicz)

A day nursery is being praised for telling parents one very important message when picking up their children: Get off your phone.

Juliana Farris Mazurkewicz was picking up her kids at the nursery in Houston on Friday when she spotted the sign on the front door.

It read: ‘You are picking up your child! GET OFF YOUR PHONE!!!! Your child is happy to see you! Are you not happy to see your child??’

It then added: ‘We have seen children trying to hand their parents their work they completed and the parent is on the phone.

‘We have heard a child say “Mommy, mommy, mommy…” and the parent is paying more attention to their phone than their own child. It is appalling. Get off your phone!!’

Rather than be offended by the straightforward message, Juliana says she agreed with the sign.

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She told Fox News: ‘I thought it was awesome. I thought it was funny and it definitely made me (think).’

Juliana, who usually doesn’t have her phone in her hand when picking up her child, happened to have it on her on Friday and snapped a photo of it.

She added: ‘I think (the message) definitely resonates with people. And it’s not just at the day care, it’s anywhere.’

The picture has since been shared more than 957,000 times after it was uploaded to Facebook.

(Picture: Getty)

One person agreed with the mother, writing: ‘This needs to be posted everywhere this is a child trying to talk to their parents.’

But others didn’t seem to share the same opinion.

Janise Warren wrote: ‘Sorry, I’d remove my child from that school. They are right, of course, but that sign is not how you talk to another person, especially one paying your salary.

‘I’m sure it’s true to be heard by many parents, but these are the people I would have entrusted to help teach my kids respect and they were just as disrespectful with that sign as the parents were with the phone. Two wrongs don’t make a right.’

Kirstin Ramsey wrote: ‘Some people have to work on their phones. I have my personal cell and a work cell. Just because I clock out of the office doesn’t mean I’m finished with my work day.

‘There have been plenty of times I’ve picked up my daughter and been on a work call.’